A/N: Well, Here I am again. I would like to thank my good friend Katsies (Engwa) for helping me do a "virtual" brainstorming session. You are the best! Well, I can't say that or else all my other friends will get pissed off at me so… whatever. Thanks so much to all my reviewers. You all deserve more sugar!  Again, this ******************************************** means change of place and this *  *  * means it's a flashback. Enjoy and don't forget to review!

Disclaimer: Another one of these? Damn. Anyways, I don't own any Harry Potter related things so don't sue me. I also don't own Toni, Kai, Lizi… You know, I bet that you get it by now. Any Lord of the Rings stuff isn't mine either. Ya happy now?

The Prophecy of Eight

            The two people kept on throwing stupid names that were getting worse and worse and no one noticed the fire in the fireplace getting higher and higher although no wood was added to the flames… Except for Lizi. She started freaking out and wringing her hands because the fire was about to come roaring out of the fireplace. The earth started to shudder and suddenly, it all stopped. Then, just as quickly, spiny vines came roaring out of the earth. These vines were immediately pulled into the fire but, surprisingly, they were not burned to ashes.

            By now, the other people in the common room had noticed the fire, including Kai Sidhe. She tried to keep a cool head but for some reason, she felt herself getting angry as well. Couldn't those two just give it a rest? A piercing pain shot through her skull and she dropped to the floor with her head in her hands. Out of nowhere, a gusting whirlwind came rampaging through the common room and it once again added power to the fire. This time, the fire became a tornado of flame with huge thorns that looked like they were reaching out to hurt something.

            Toni Shipelling looked up in annoyance. Couldn't these people and this fire wait until she was done reading her .Hack manga? This was important! She growled and stood up to go make the people stop screaming.

            "Why the hell can't you people be quiet? Just shut up! I don't know if this is some type of joke, but if it is there will be hell to pay! Keep your damn mouths shut!" Toni then kicked the sofa and plopped back down, all this time unaware of the monstrous whirlwind behind her. Although, it wasn't a whirlwind anymore. Now, it had become a raging inferno with thorns trapped inside a thick layer of ice. If you listened carefully, you could almost hear the wind screaming inside it.

            While this was all happening, there had only been one sixth year that had been smart enough (or had panicked enough) to run to get a professor. This sixth year had been Hayley Liu. Hayley Liu was an Asian girl who was friends with some of the younger students. She had run into the hallways screaming that there was a fire in the Gryffindor common room. Luckily, she had bumped into Professor McGonagal and she dragged McGonagal into the Gryffindor common room. The Professor took one look at the ice statue and did a quick double take.

            "Someone, will explain this to me. Now!" Her commanding voice broke the stunned spell of silence on the common room and like a breaking wave; voices began telling their version of the story like there was no tomorrow.

            "They were fighting!"

            "The fire got out of control!"

            "There was an earthquake!"

            "Must've gone undetected."

            "Vines, shooting out of the ground!"

            "From no where!"

            "Lots of wind!"

            "She screamed at us."

            "The tornado turned to ice!" How McGonagal was able to understand the story is a mystery but understand it she did. After thinking for a few moments, McGonagal gave her verdict.

            "I'll banish this… whatever you call it. Then I'd like you all to go back to what you were doing. Except for Lily Evans, Toni Shipelling, Kai Sidhe, and Lizi Potter. I'd like you four to come with me." The common room hurriedly returned to normal… almost. There was a slight alienation to the scene. This was an alienation that was caused by the residents. They all were pretending to do their work while trying to look inconspicuous as they snuck looks at the four different girls. McGonagal banished the ice statue to an unknown location and gestured for the girls to follow her. Outwardly, the four looked calm and composed, but inside, they were quaking in their boots. McGonagal turned around right before she was about to leave and called,

            "If Hayley Liu will come and join our little procession? Thank you." Hayley rose from her seat and made her way over to the group. As they went down the corridors, some nervous conversations were being held between the five girls.

            "That was weird. Do you think that the ice statue looked like a cow?" Hayley had a slight obsession with cows.

            "Uh, not really. Sorry. I do think that it was very odd though."

            "Tell me about it."

            "She just did you moron." Lizi sighed; Toni and Lily were going at each other's throats again.

            "It's a figure of speech."

            "No it isn't."

            "In the context that I'm using it, it is."

            "God you two! Can't you just give it a rest! Listen, it can be a figure of speech Toni. And it can also be used as a command Lily. You're both right." Lily and Toni glared at Lizi.

            "Can't we just fight? I mean, maybe if we ever finished a fight, maybe we would be able to solve the problems and not go at each other's throats all the time."

            "Yeah, I agree with Lily. For once she's making sense. So, we were fighting?"

            "Right. In the context that I am using the phrase in, it is a figure of speech. I do understand how it can be misunderstood as a command… it's kind of like something that Petty would do. She would hear about something, dismiss it, then hear a slight mention of it and ask to be told about it. She's an idiot."

            "Yeah, you're right. Look, I'm sorry that we were fighting all this time and we couldn't gang up on Petunia. It's depressing. All this time wasted fighting that we could've spent making her life a living hell."

            "Yeah, me too. See Lizi? We're friends now. Nyah!" Lily stuck her tongue out at Lizi and wrinkled her nose at her. Hayley, who had been silent until now, asked,

            "Are they always like this?" It was Kai who answered.

            "Where've you been for six years? I'm not even their friend and I know this. This is the first time that they've made up but other than that, they usually are at each other's throats and throwing insults back and forth. It's kind of like Lily and James." Hayley looked a bit embarrassed.

            "Well-"

            "Girls, we are here. Do come up. Licorice Wands." McGonagal had interrupted Hayley before she could finish and there was another rush of nerves so everyone refrained from talking. The gargoyle that they had been standing in front of hopped away as the password was said and, not for the first time in their lives, the five girls wondered about their headmaster's sanity.  Why would someone choose Licorice Wands as a password?

            The group of six people walked up the staircase and reached the door that separated them from Dumbledore's office.

            "Professor, I brought five girls to see you." They heard Dumbledore's warm voice reply from the other side of the door,

            "Come in, come in. Take a seat. Thank you Minerva, you may go." McGonagal left to go work on her lesson plans for the third years that would be joining her the next morning and the five girls went in the door.

A/N: O.K. So that was a pointless chapter. I didn't really like that one. It didn't seem to flow as much. Oh well. Sorry about this. It's just that I'm in the Nutcracker right now and I have a company part. And of course it's crunch time for both this and school and I have so many things overwhelming me right now including dealing with my club. Well, my club members really. They're… evil. No, not evil. They're… psychotic and hyper and that doesn't help. Don't get me wrong, I love them. They're my friends for God's sake! But still. I'm dealing with school right now and hopefully, during the holidays, I can get going at a faster pace with longer chapters. I just have a lot to do right now. So for now… deal with it and please don't bug me (I'm talking to my friends from school mainly) to update. I keep on telling you that I can't update as fast right now, but do you listen? Noooooooo. Ack. Well, I guess this is Stubborn Mule, signing off.

Much Love, peace, happiness, and fangirl screams because POTC (Pirates of the Caribbean) is out on DVD (JACK! JACK! JACK! JACK! JACK!),

Stubborn Mule